I don't return carts to the store and normally return them to the cart corral (if it's close).
When it's 100* and my groceries are in my 140*+ car I am not taking an extra 2 minutes to return it.
Sorry, not sorry.
this is hilarious. What a ridiculous justification. I just imagine you speeding home, glancing franticallly at the clock on the way home. Do you peel out of the parking lot and take the turn out on two wheels? Lol.
I hope you hit major traffic on your next grocery run and your ice cream melts.
lol I don't buy ice cream :-)
I think it's funny that THIS is what makes me a complete and total asshole. This one little thing? Like there are way worse things in the world....but ok..add me to the spreadsheet.
this is hilarious. What a ridiculous justification. I just imagine you speeding home, glancing franticallly at the clock on the way home. Do you peel out of the parking lot and take the turn out on two wheels? Lol.
I hope you hit major traffic on your next grocery run and your ice cream melts.
lol I don't buy ice cream :-)
I think it's funny that THIS is what makes me a complete and total asshole. This one little thing? Like there are way worse things in the world....
this is hilarious. What a ridiculous justification. I just imagine you speeding home, glancing franticallly at the clock on the way home. Do you peel out of the parking lot and take the turn out on two wheels? Lol.
I hope you hit major traffic on your next grocery run and your ice cream melts.
lol I don't buy ice cream :-)
I think it's funny that THIS is what makes me a complete and total asshole. This one little thing? Like there are way worse things in the world....but ok..add me to the spreadsheet.
Oh don't worry, the next time you do something it will be brought up, "AND she doesn't return her shopping carts."
this is hilarious. What a ridiculous justification. I just imagine you speeding home, glancing franticallly at the clock on the way home. Do you peel out of the parking lot and take the turn out on two wheels? Lol.
I hope you hit major traffic on your next grocery run and your ice cream melts.
lol I don't buy ice cream :-)
I think it's funny that THIS is what makes me a complete and total asshole. This one little thing? Like there are way worse things in the world....but ok..add me to the spreadsheet.
Yes, there are. Like working for minimum wage in 100*+ heat (plus all the radiant asphalt adds) picking up after assholes. You're right; that's a lot worse.
Every once in a while, I drop something small like a receipt or a napkin on the ground and it blows away before I can pick it up and I feel like an asshole for accidentally littering. I just can't relate to being all TRA LA LA I DON'T RETURN MY CART AND DON'T CARE!
this is hilarious. What a ridiculous justification. I just imagine you speeding home, glancing franticallly at the clock on the way home. Do you peel out of the parking lot and take the turn out on two wheels? Lol.
I hope you hit major traffic on your next grocery run and your ice cream melts.
lol I don't buy ice cream :-)
I think it's funny that THIS is what makes me a complete and total asshole. This one little thing? Like there are way worse things in the world....but ok..add me to the spreadsheet.
Anyone who is disrespectful enough to leave a cart in the parking lot AND be this breezy about it is probably disrespectful in other areas of his/her life.
ALSO, they make those insulated grocery bags just for this. Again, simple problem solving skills can be applied.
I'd venture to guess that someone too lazy to put the cart back is way too lazy to bother with reusable bags. I mean, you have to fold them up AND remember to bring them. So.much.effort! You can't expect them to do ALL that work! Besides, they might put bag factory employees out of work.
ALSO, they make those insulated grocery bags just for this. Again, simple problem solving skills can be applied.
I'd venture to guess that someone too lazy to put the cart back is way too lazy to bother with reusable bags. I mean, you have to fold them up AND remember to bring them. So.much.effort! You can't expect them to do ALL that work! Besides, they might put bag factory employees out of work.
Wait, you fold your reusable bags? Huh. I just skip that step.
I'd venture to guess that someone too lazy to put the cart back is way too lazy to bother with reusable bags. I mean, you have to fold them up AND remember to bring them. So.much.effort! You can't expect them to do ALL that work! Besides, they might put bag factory employees out of work.
Wait, you fold your reusable bags? Huh. I just skip that step.
ETA and put a bunch of them inside another.
Only some lol! I have a few that fold into themselves then have a zipper or drawstring to keep them folded really tiny so I can keep them in my purse without taking noticeable space so I'm never without a bag. The rest get shoved into the big, insulated Trader Joe's bag and kept in my trunk.
I'd venture to guess that someone too lazy to put the cart back is way too lazy to bother with reusable bags. I mean, you have to fold them up AND remember to bring them. So.much.effort! You can't expect them to do ALL that work! Besides, they might put bag factory employees out of work.
Wait, you fold your reusable bags? Huh. I just skip that step.
ETA and put a bunch of them inside another.
I got a pack of six reusable bags that folded up super small and fit into a pouch, theoretically so I could just pop the pouch into my purse and go.
Yeah, they've never been re-folded since I got them. I put five of them inside the sixth one.
ALSO, they make those insulated grocery bags just for this. Again, simple problem solving skills can be applied.
I'd venture to guess that someone too lazy to put the cart back is way too lazy to bother with reusable bags. I mean, you have to fold them up AND remember to bring them. So.much.effort! You can't expect them to do ALL that work! Besides, they might put bag factory employees out of work.
I have reusable bags, I use cloth napkins and towels for cleaning instead of paper towels, I grow a lot of my own veggies...and I tip 30% at restaurants (unless it's shitty service then 20%).
I'd venture to guess that someone too lazy to put the cart back is way too lazy to bother with reusable bags. I mean, you have to fold them up AND remember to bring them. So.much.effort! You can't expect them to do ALL that work! Besides, they might put bag factory employees out of work.
I have reusable bags, I use cloth napkins and towels for cleaning instead of paper towels, I grow a lot of my own veggies...and I tip 30% at restaurants (unless it's shitty service then 20%).
Anything else? Y'all are being crazy!
How do you get to page 5 of a thread where 97% of the people say that not returning carts is an asshole move... to say that you're an asshole? I don't get it.
this is hilarious. What a ridiculous justification. I just imagine you speeding home, glancing franticallly at the clock on the way home. Do you peel out of the parking lot and take the turn out on two wheels? Lol.
I hope you hit major traffic on your next grocery run and your ice cream melts.
lol I don't buy ice cream :-)
I think it's funny that THIS is what makes me a complete and total asshole. This one little thing? Like there are way worse things in the world....but ok..add me to the spreadsheet.
I don't keep spreadsheets. I have a photographic memory. I also didn't say you were a complete asshole. I said your reasoning is ridiculous, so nice attempt at arguing from the extreme position.
Post by StrawberryBlondie on Jun 18, 2017 19:28:16 GMT -5
I can think of exactly one time in my adult life I didn't return my cart. It was a torrential downpour and my kid (about 1-1/2 at the time) was having the worst meltdown she's basically ever had, and I was nowhere near the corral.
In the US, I found most stores had plenty of corrals close to the door, but the further out you get in the parking lot the fewer corrals, if there are any at all. Wal-Mart & Target are the worst offenders for not having corrals far out into the parking lot where I shop, and I will not walk the equivalent of two blocks to find a corral because the parking lot designers did not think to install corrals that far out in the lots. I do put the carts in places they will not roll into cars or traffic lanes, but come on people, if there are parking places there someone is going to go all the way out to the edges of the parking lot with a cart and needs someplace to put it.
Our Target has a parking garage, with no cart corrals further than the first row near the entrance. It really sucks there because the middle of the garage is slanted. They do have them on other floors so I don't see why they wouldn't at least install one that's easily accessible from each area. It's frustrating.
I am a returner though. And I heavily judge non-returners assuming it's not a physical issue. I am super pregnant with twins (and I assume just look super tired everywhere I go now) and a lady came to take my cart back for me this morning and I was so grateful. But I would have taken it myself if she hadn't. It's a minimum expectation to live in a society, folks.
Post by bernsteincat on Jun 18, 2017 20:04:30 GMT -5
Went to Walmart this evening. Drizzling rain, and there were TWO carts left right in front of the damn exit doors. Like, RIGHT IN FRONT OF THEM SO YOU HAD TO MOVE THEM OUT OF THE WAY JUST TO BE ABLE TO EXIT. I couldn't wait to get home and post this.
In the US, I found most stores had plenty of corrals close to the door, but the further out you get in the parking lot the fewer corrals, if there are any at all. Wal-Mart & Target are the worst offenders for not having corrals far out into the parking lot where I shop, and I will not walk the equivalent of two blocks to find a corral because the parking lot designers did not think to install corrals that far out in the lots. I do put the carts in places they will not roll into cars or traffic lanes, but come on people, if there are parking places there someone is going to go all the way out to the edges of the parking lot with a cart and needs someplace to put it.
Our Target has a parking garage, with no cart corrals further than the first row near the entrance. It really sucks there because the middle of the garage is slanted. They do have them on other floors so I don't see why they wouldn't at least install one that's easily accessible from each area. It's frustrating.
I am a returner though. And I heavily judge non-returners assuming it's not a physical issue. I am super pregnant with twins (and I assume just look super tired everywhere I go now) and a lady came to take my cart back for me this morning and I was so grateful. But I would have taken it myself if she hadn't. It's a minimum expectation to live in a society, folks.
When I was super pregnant with twins I was always grateful to people who would take my cart back for me. But I am a returner. Sometimes I will even take a second to nest a few carts together so there is more room for others. But I cannot tell you the last time I saw a cart left in a parking lot.
mr+ms, I do have to say I didn't think about your H wanting someone else's cart to walk INTO the store, and I'm sorry that I missed that. I was merely thinking about leaving the store. However, it doesn't really change my opinion that the cart should be returned if there is an able-bodied person available to do it. For every person that is happy to see a cart waiting in the parking spot, there's another who has a hard time getting around it. And people in those spots don't want dings from carts, either!
My MIL has lots of mobility issues. Like your H, it's easier for her to walk with the cart. If there's a cart available between her parking spot and the door, she will push it in. If someone else is with her, we will walk to the nearest cart corral, grab a cart, and then take it to her to push inside. If neither is available, she walks as she does anywhere else that doesn't have carts available, though pushing a cart is certainly her preference. It would be perfect if there was a corral right next to some handicap spaces to solve all of this!
I don't think you're an asshole. I'm sure you have bigger things to worry about than where you park your cart.
I don't return carts to the store and normally return them to the cart corral (if it's close).
When it's 100* and my groceries are in my 140*+ car I am not taking an extra 2 minutes to return it.
Sorry, not sorry.
Do you mean you just return it to the corral or leave it out drifting through the parking lot by itself? No one's insisting you return it to the store, inside the corral is fine.
I bet the people who leave carts scattered around are the same who leave their newspaper on their metro seat so "others can read it". Take your damn newspaper with you. You're littering and I don't want to need to move it to sit down.
I bet the people who leave carts scattered around are the same who leave their newspaper on their metro seat so "others can read it". Take your damn newspaper with you. You're littering and I don't want to need to move it to sit down.
Our trains have a special rack by the door for "reusable" newspapers. No one ever uses it and just leaves them on the seat.
TBH, I can't fault them for it, because it wasn't until this very moment that I understood that was why they're designed the way they are. The rack is on top of the recycling station, and I had always just subconsciously seen it as the paper recycling. ...except that there's a paper bin down below. (idea) Clearly not the best design choice. They should have put the shared-paper bin in the middle of the seating area. Maybe with some text instead of just the newspaper image.